vrede...   lape...   erray...   maxu...   pau...   satta...   friede...   paix...   pace...   sipala...   malino... hozo...  peace...

However you say it, we long for it.

The Gandhi Alliance for Peace - GAP - is a group of people passionately interested in keeping alive Mahatma Gandhi's teachings and nonviolent efforts for positive change. Since our founding in 1998, we have been working to increase peaceful communication, understanding, nonviolence, and joyful collaboration among people. 

Now, more than ever, this work is vitally important!  We are seeking new and more effective ways to help spread a commitment to peace. If you are interested in our work and would like to join in, please contact us.


Our mission

We seek to contribute to a world where all can flourish and be safe, by teaching and acting in accordance with Gandhi's ideals of:

• nonviolence,
• respect and equity for all,
  
• love for enemies,
• resistance of evil,
• truth-seeking,
• and Swaraj--inner self-governance and peace as essential to peaceful communities and nations.  

Our work

Our work is always evolving--and you can help guide it!  Every action makes a difference.
Our peace work over the last three decades, in cooperation with others, includes:

• Essay contests at Horizonte School
• Peace books and peace programs in elementary schools
• Removing landmines
• Educating children in refugee camps
• Speaking out against nuclear weapons and weapons testing
• Fundraising dinners, musical evenings, and drama
• A statue of Gandhi erected at the YWCA in Salt Lake City
• Film series
  
• An annual celebration of peace near the date of Gandhi's birthday. We celebrate with music, dance, prayers, speeches, the planting of a peace tree, and the annual Gandhi Peace Award

Gandhi Peace Celebration

Peace Award

Other Projects

Peace in the Schools

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